Lake Victoria to Khartoum 



further south. These topi were inhabiting the 

 same kind of bush country as I have described in 

 Big Game Shooting on the Equator. 



I was very much distressed at not being able 

 to obtain a photograph, but it was far too early in 

 the morning for the light, and I was handicapped 

 by being hard pressed for time, with a series of 

 long marches in front. 



I repeat I have not the least hesitation in 

 saying he was a topi ; nevertheless, I would ask 

 sportsmen in the Sudan Government, living on the 

 right bank of the Nile in the Province of Mon- 

 galla and at the head-quarters of the Sobat 

 river, to make careful notes as to which species 

 occurs in their districts, in order that something 

 definite may be ascertained as to where the line 

 comes that marks the meeting-place between the 

 tiang of the North and the topi of the South. 



Topi are known to exist in fair quantities in 

 the Gondokoro district, but are very much more 

 numerous the nearer to Abyssinia that one goes — 

 East, that is to say. They are to be met with 

 in the south of Uganda towards Imbarara and 

 the Semliki river, and are there found in large 

 herds. 



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